PiePal

Developed by iStrategyLabs as part of their Social Machines line comes Piepal, officially the easiest and fastest way to order a pizza.

The physical construction was designed using SketchUp and printed out using PLA on a MakerBot Replicator 2. The internals are powered by a Raspberry Pi (of course!) & Arduino combination, allowing for finite control of the LEDs mounted internally and a fully realized user interface.

Like many of iSL’s Social Machines, the PiePal is powered completely by JavaScript, using Node.js. Some tricky reverse-engineering allowed us to set up an API wrapper around Dominos’ amazing online ordering system, which handles everything from finding the closest store to tracking the status of each order.